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i really enjoy documenting the entire bush family. >> host: did you get to know mrs. bush's low? >> guest: i did. >> host: i want to ask about this photo i very, very long couch. is this happenstance? >> guest: this is inside buckingham palace prior to departing for black-tie dinner hosted by the queen. the president and mrs. bush were staying there, walking around. they were like kids. they really enjoyed themselves. they said come photograph this on this couch. i really created a fun, light moment. >> host: there's another photo from 2001, were mr. and mrs. bush are dancing. >> guest: that was taken january 20, 2001. the president and mrs. bush were rehearsing before their very first inaugural ball backstage at the reagan center. just a quiet moment the two of them. obviously there's lots of commotion behind me because everyone is preparing for the event to start and they wanted to rehearse their dance, which they repeated a dozen times that night because of all the. >> host: and a lot of these photos come edc secret service agent standing around. what was your relationship --
i really enjoy documenting the entire bush family. >> host: did you get to know mrs. bush's low? >> guest: i did. >> host: i want to ask about this photo i very, very long couch. is this happenstance? >> guest: this is inside buckingham palace prior to departing for black-tie dinner hosted by the queen. the president and mrs. bush were staying there, walking around. they were like kids. they really enjoyed themselves. they said come photograph this on this couch. i...
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bush. mr. draper in the book could a black kid from south-central los angeles be the photographer for the president of the united states? was the answer that question? >> guest: that's a big yes. >> host: how did you get the job? >> guest: back in 2000 i was assigned by the "associated press" to cover the bush campaign and i was the photographer. that is my background, photojournalism. i covered the campaign full-time for 18 months. >> host: did you get to know the president and that kind of work? >> guest: you do, you do. you spend a lot of time on the road mostly with other journalists and a lot of time with staff, campaign staff and i really didn't think about the job until actually after the election because you might remember the election wasn't decided that night and during the recount, that gave me the opportunity to receive a position of governor bush had won the election. everything lined up. that was perfect timing for me because right after he became president-elect i had the opportu
bush. mr. draper in the book could a black kid from south-central los angeles be the photographer for the president of the united states? was the answer that question? >> guest: that's a big yes. >> host: how did you get the job? >> guest: back in 2000 i was assigned by the "associated press" to cover the bush campaign and i was the photographer. that is my background, photojournalism. i covered the campaign full-time for 18 months. >> host: did you get to know...
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. >> host: here's another photo of mrs. bush, barbara bush. >> guest: yes, this was election evening 2004 very late at night. actually it might have been early in the morning. we had just learned that president bush was ahead mathematically to win the election. so the family decided it was time to celebrate with a conga line. >> host: how often would you alone, just you and the bush family? >> guest: a lot, a lot. especially around family gatherings and around holidays. typically for example every christmas i was invited to camp david to photograph the family. the best thing was my wife was with me the same time so she could be with me and i could enjoy the holidays with her and i would photograph the family around christmastime. there was always a huge family portrait which was important to them, to get everyone together in one shot. i would do that every christmas. >> host: you say in here was like herding cats. >> guest: the bush family is large and just like any family they were very busy doing lots of things other than
. >> host: here's another photo of mrs. bush, barbara bush. >> guest: yes, this was election evening 2004 very late at night. actually it might have been early in the morning. we had just learned that president bush was ahead mathematically to win the election. so the family decided it was time to celebrate with a conga line. >> host: how often would you alone, just you and the bush family? >> guest: a lot, a lot. especially around family gatherings and around holidays....
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mr. abrams is educated at harvard college, harvard law school, london school of economics and served for eight years during the reagan administration as assistant secretary of state and eight years in the bush administration as the white house deputy adviser to the president and deputy national security adviser. elliot's book, "tested by zion," is worth reading, and i should note if you want to read it, it's worth buying for two important reasons. first, this is a presidential adviser or at the highest level with access to all of the players involved in the israeli/palestinian conflict, and there are a lot. the book is filled with answers about really interesting questions that we all have thought about if we've been interested in this region. thinking about egypt/israel, the palestinians, syrians. the questions are manyfold, but many of the answers that you'll receive or you'll be able to get a better understanding of was how was it that george w. bush from texas came to the white house
mr. abrams is educated at harvard college, harvard law school, london school of economics and served for eight years during the reagan administration as assistant secretary of state and eight years in the bush administration as the white house deputy adviser to the president and deputy national security adviser. elliot's book, "tested by zion," is worth reading, and i should note if you want to read it, it's worth buying for two important reasons. first, this is a presidential adviser...
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mr. abram is educated at harvard college, harvard law school, london school of economics and served eight years during the reagan did ministration by assistant secretary of state and eight years in the bush administration as the white house deputy adviser to the president and national security advisor. eliot's book. >> "tested by zion" is worth reading and i should note it is worth buying for two important reasons. first this is a presidential advisor at the highest level with access to all involved in the palestinian conflict and there are a lot. the book is filled with answers severally interesting questions that we all have thought about if we had been interested in this region thinking about egypt and israel, palestinians syrians the questions are manyfold but many answers you will receive is how was it that george to view bush from texas came to the white house with so little experience in the least with israel, and committed to the jewish state. how and why did george w. bush choice
mr. abram is educated at harvard college, harvard law school, london school of economics and served eight years during the reagan did ministration by assistant secretary of state and eight years in the bush administration as the white house deputy adviser to the president and national security advisor. eliot's book. >> "tested by zion" is worth reading and i should note it is worth buying for two important reasons. first this is a presidential advisor at the highest level with...
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he hails from a family that has gone out of their way to extend warmth and support to mrs. reagan, and all of us at the reagan library over the years. let us extend that warmth to him. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming governor jeb bush. [applause] >> very kind. really honored to be here. whoo, thank you. thank you all so much. ambassador, great seeing you. thank you sop. it is an incredible honor to be in this beautiful place. i am, i'm just in awe of what you all have done here and truly privileged and honored to be here. i thought i would start my remarks by giving you a quick bush family update. first, i want to thank everybody for their thoughts and prayers for my dad. as he said, put the harps back in the closet, it wasn't time to go. [laughter] he's always had a pretty good sense of humor, and thank goodness he was right about that, and the harps are back in the closet. that's the good news. he's out of the hospital and regaining his strength little by little. yesterday he was at his library, in fact, with prime minister mull roney, and he's been ther
he hails from a family that has gone out of their way to extend warmth and support to mrs. reagan, and all of us at the reagan library over the years. let us extend that warmth to him. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming governor jeb bush. [applause] >> very kind. really honored to be here. whoo, thank you. thank you all so much. ambassador, great seeing you. thank you sop. it is an incredible honor to be in this beautiful place. i am, i'm just in awe of what you all have...
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it was there, of course, that i first brought mr. gorbachev and raisa gorbachev to meet them, because it's the atmosphere of a country house -- in winter, big log fires -- and just lovely. c-span: how far is it from london? >> guest: about an hour-and-a-quarter driving time. c-span: let me read you something that i wrote down: "our advice at this time was that mrs. gorbachev was a committed, hard-line marxist; her obvious interest in hobbes' leviathan, which she took down from the shelf in the library, might possibly have confirmed that." did you notice her picking...? c-span: no, my husband was up in the library with her while i was talking to mr. gorbachev. but you know, she is a great philosopher herself. she read philosophy, and i think denis took her around and showed her the treasures of the library, and some she was very interested in. perhaps we attach particular significance to hobbes' leviathan. it did seem at that time that she was a very, very hard-line communist and more so than mr. gorbachev. as i wrote in the book, it
it was there, of course, that i first brought mr. gorbachev and raisa gorbachev to meet them, because it's the atmosphere of a country house -- in winter, big log fires -- and just lovely. c-span: how far is it from london? >> guest: about an hour-and-a-quarter driving time. c-span: let me read you something that i wrote down: "our advice at this time was that mrs. gorbachev was a committed, hard-line marxist; her obvious interest in hobbes' leviathan, which she took down from the...
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. >> caller: high, mr. mistake in how you doing? i have two questions. two quick questions. first question, is there any truth to george bush senior having funded terrorists through the bank in the early years of the war against russia to the taliban? and my second question, how do you feel about the cia hiring literature students to come up with potential new center terrorist attacks against the united states? thank you. >> guest: i'm sorry, i did knew the second question. hiring what? >> host: litter very students to come up with various scenarios. >> guest: i have to confess in both cases i don't know much about it. second question, i know that was a movie and, it might be true as well. but i'm not informed on either subject. >> host: daniel, hartsdale new york good afternoon to you. >> caller: i was wondering what prevented india from attacking pakistan after the attack from al qaeda? >> guest: it's a good question. there's been a number of attacks on indian so that have been traced to lashkar e taiba and other militant groups that have historically, there's evidence to
. >> caller: high, mr. mistake in how you doing? i have two questions. two quick questions. first question, is there any truth to george bush senior having funded terrorists through the bank in the early years of the war against russia to the taliban? and my second question, how do you feel about the cia hiring literature students to come up with potential new center terrorist attacks against the united states? thank you. >> guest: i'm sorry, i did knew the second question. hiring...